Third season CO, to camp or not

[Ucsdryder]

I did this last January on a late season cow hunt. cold AF, but still awesome.

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11boo I have that same table!! I bet we have 2 of the only ones left in existence. Mine is about 35 years old and still going strong. Lol

 

[11boo]

11boo I have that same table!! I bet we have 2 of the only ones left in existence. Mine is about 35 years old and still going strong. Lol

That table will not die. Mine is 30+ years old and has made every adventure in those years.

 

[Ucsdryder]

That table will not die. Mine is 30+ years old and has made every adventure in those years.

I love it. My dad and I still hunt together. I hope to have it long after we’re not able to hunt together. My first hunting trips were with that table. We took it 26 miles into the frank church on horses 30 years ago. Talk about memories!

 

[Poser]

I had to google JNCOs, and I can honestly say......"I have never seen anybody wear those before in my life".......and thank goodness.

Those were everywhere in the mid 90s. Unless you wearing Wranglers, all of the cuts on 90 jeans and pants were oversized and baggy.

 

[Sierra Hunter]

If you have never camped in cold weather you may not want to try it for the whole week for your first time. Not having the right gear to stay warm at night and waking up shivering cold multiple times is no fun and will ruin your hunt.(I know from bad experiences)

That being said I would always camp but I have a good system for staying warm after some hard learned lessons.

I do a bit of mountaineering and have camped and slept plenty in the “cold” but to me that 10+ and usually only a few nights. The difference is I’m running out of a small backpacking tent with a good bag and gear. Hearing stories of the negatives and to do it for a week, without currently having a large tent and stove sounds pretty brutal

 

[ranchhand02]

I prefer not to camp. I like to come out, take a hot shower and relax in a comfortable place.

 

[Titan]

I vote for camp. You will always talk about the time you camped 3rd season and how cold/miserable/awesome it was. You will never talk about the time you hunted and stayed in a hotel/airbnb.

 

[Bearsears]

I vote for camp. You will always talk about the time you camped 3rd season and how cold/miserable/awesome it was. You will never talk about the time you hunted and stayed in a hotel/airbnb.

"Dude we hunted so hard out of La Quinta" nobody ever.

 

[huntnful]

I'll be there with my buddy as well on 3rd season. We are packing in with a TIPI and stove, only about 4 miles, with no trails, but that makes a huge difference in pressure. We'll be around 7-8000'. I've also hunted out of hotels for winter hunts. The most you're going to be able to consistently do is probably 2 miles and 1500' of vert every morning, and you'll be looking for shorter hikes after 2 days of that lol.

The tipi and stove are luxurious if your used to just a solo tent most of the season. Easily take that setup down to 0 degrees. I enjoy it and don't feel like I'm roughing it at all.

Probably not going to be able to persuade you, since you think it's a terrible idea lol. But I can assure you, you would be hunting animals that you would never see from the trailhead, and they'll be unpressured as well.

If you're just going to set up a base camp at a trail head with a wall tent, and a hotel is only 30 minutes away, I'd pick the hotel.

 

[CoStick]

Late season I don’t camp but hunt only wearing a 500” square inch blaze orange loin cloth. Good balance between my manliness and comfort.

 

[Coveyleader]

My experience, guys who have to drive each way each day, are not in the game, and won't be for very long. Comfort be damned, I'd take the tent, and be in the game.

It's better to be in the 10% and suffer a bit, than the 90% who need comfort during the hunt, and more so after the hunt when they didn't "see anything".

But...…. People hunt for different reasons, enjoy it either way.

Good luck.

 

[Jacobo2012]

We will be headed that way for 3rd season as well and taking a wall tent and stove


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[Bearsears]

My experience, guys who have to drive each way each day, are not in the game, and won't be for very long. Comfort be damned, I'd take the tent, and be in the game.

It's better to be in the 10% and suffer a bit, than the 90% who need comfort during the hunt, and more so after the hunt when they didn't "see anything".

But...…. People hunt for different reasons, enjoy it either way.

Good luck.

Ive gotta agree here. I also think that its a falsehood that you cant be comfortable in the late season, you totally can but good gear is expensive and you have to invest in it. Knowledge and experience of how to do things in the late season to stay comfortable is hard won. The biggest thing I dislike in the late season isnt the cold, I actually really like hunting in the cold weather, its how much heavier my pack is with layering, hot tents, etc.

 

[justinspicher]

"Dude we hunted so hard out of La Quinta" nobody ever.

Now I am going to do this and blog the shit out of it.

 

[hh76]

I prefer not to camp. I like to come out, take a hot shower and relax in a comfortable place.

Probably can't shower, but there's no reason you can't relax in a comfortable place while staying in a canvas tent. My favorite spot in the world to sit and relax is next to the wood stove in my tent. Nice cot with a good pad is as comfortable as any cheap hotel bed.

Winter is my favorite season to camp, and the extra dark gives you more time to sit around and BS.

 

[CoStick]

Probably can't shower, but there's no reason you can't relax in a comfortable place while staying in a canvas tent. My favorite spot in the world to sit and relax is next to the wood stove in my tent. Nice cot with a good pad is as comfortable as any cheap hotel bed.

Winter is my favorite season to camp, and the extra dark gives you more time to sit around and BS.

I agree there is not much measurable difference between a wall tent and a motel.

 

[5MilesBack]

Unless you wearing Wranglers, all of the cuts on 90 jeans and pants were oversized and baggy.

 

[171farm]

So what did you end up doing?

 

[Sierra Hunter]

We stayed in a motel the first couple days while we figured out the unit and then camped it up. It was a nonevent with the weather being too damn warm, we had one Cooler night in the high teens and it was mellow. The mr buddy heater did the trick for the morning change. Hope others hear better luck than us out there

 

[poboy2214]

I did it once and it’s really hard to sleep well when it’s -5 at night. And getting up to knock the snow off the roof of your tent sucks too. But the biggest problem was all of my water and filters freezing. We found an RV for rent about 45 minutes from the trail head we hunted from this year and I have zero regrets and will probably be doing this again from now on.